Alan Turing Year

The Alan Turing Centenary Advisory committee (TCAC) was originally set up by Professor S. Barry Cooper[1] The international impact of Turing's work is reflected in the list of countries in which Alan Turing Year was celebrated, including: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong,[2] India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the U.K., and the U.S.A. 41+ countries were involved.

The Association for Computing Machinery was involved from June to September 2012.

Artists, musicians and poets took part in the celebrations internationally.

[3] The Alan Turing Centenary Conference was held at the University of Manchester during June 2012.

Members of TCAC include Honorary President, Sir John Dermot Turing; The Chair and founder of the committee, mathematician and author of Alan Turing - His Work and Impact S. Barry Cooper; Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges;[4] Wendy Hall, first person from outside North America elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery in July 2008; Simon Singh;[5] Hugh Loebner sponsor of the Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence (annual science contest based on the famous Turing test) cyberneticist Kevin Warwick, author of 'March of the Machines' and 'I, Cyborg', and committee member Daniela Derbyshire, who is also handling international co-ordination of marketing and publicity.